Deftones have finally confirmed their new album. ‘Gore’ is due out 8th April, following on from 2012 LP ‘Koi No Yokan’.

The band has released a teaser trailer for the new album which will be produced by Warner Bros. Records. Chino Moreno from Deftones says that the new album has sixteen tracks to follow the band’s 2012’s Koi No Yakan album. Their 2012 album was produced by Matt Hyde and included special guest Alice In Chains member Jerry Cantrell.

Gore is what Moreno describes as something out of the box with lots of jam packed songs. The album was influenced by Morrissey, former frontman of British band The Smiths. “I’ve been on this crazy Morrissey kick recently – totally obsessing over his solo records – so I brought a lot of that to the table,” Moreno said to NME magazine.. “On those early solo records, he uses this awesome, Elvis-y delay on his vocal that I’ve been ripping off a ton. He’s always been a favourite lyricist of mine – the beautiful poetic melancholy of it all.” But Moreno also says that there are still darker elements to the album to keep the sweetness of the music from going sour.

During a November 2015 interiew with BBC Radio 1's "Rock Show", DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno stated about "vibe" of the band's long-awaited follow-up to 2012's "Koi No Yokan": "I can't really compare it to our last couple of records. I mean, those two records were done in a very similar manner where we locked ourselves in a room for a short period of time and wrote and recorded it. And therefore, I feel like we sort of really captured this moment in time, and the records sort of sound cohesive because of that. This record was done sort of over a year, spread out over these little, tiny writing sections. So it sounds a bit more fragmented, but in a good way. I mean, I feel like you put on one song and it's completely different from the song after it, or previous to it. So it's not like we had this one main idea and we went in and we sort of went with that vibe. I mean, the vibe's sort of all over the place. So, like any DEFTONES record, I mean, it's got dynamics and there's loud aggressiveness and there's mellowness to it, but it's all sort of got an ebb and flow to it. I don't know… It'd be hard for me to just put it in words exactly what it sounds like. It's definitely a DEFTONES record. The way I look at it is it's a gradual step from where we last were."

Deftones will be performing at the London’s Wembley Arena in June, which was rescheduled from the Paris attacks last year in November. The gig will be performed June 3, which is before Deftones will be performing at the Download Festival later this year. The band is also scheduled to perform at MUSINK this year.